It’s been a few years since we last heard of the Aston Martin RapidE, but the ongoing project to deliver the company’s first all-electric production car just got another step closer to reality. Aston Martin released this concept sketch and a promise to bring 155 examples to market by 2019.

The RapidE will be based upon the sportier Rapide AMR that was just revealed at Geneva this year, meaning it’ll have more aggressive styling and a more capable chassis. Of course capitalizing the E in RapidE means an all-electric powertrain, co-developed with Williams Advanced Engineering, replaces the 6.0-liter V12. I can’t think of a more depressing sentence I’ve ever written.

That’s all we really know about it at this point. Expect it to be fast, offer instantaneous torque (and probably their fastest 0-60 time ever), and very beautiful. But is it still really an Aston Martin without those wonderful sounds we’ve come to expect?

Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of some of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. There’s also just a little opinion of mine because I can. This week:

Cadillac XTS gets numerous updates for 2018

Jaguar announces E-Pace compact SUV, debuts in July

Camaro ZL1 1LE is scientifically proven to be stupid fast

Volkswagen confirms ID Buzz (Microbus) revival for production

Dodge announces plans to combat dealer markups for Demon

Assetto Corsa Ferrari celebration car pack and poll announced

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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of some of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. There’s also just a little opinion of mine because I can. This week:

Microsoft reveals 911 GT2 RS at E3 on behalf of Porsche, rumors say

The beautiful Jaguar XF Sportbrake is here

Panoz reveals ambitious EV endurance racer concept

McLaren adds roadster option to 570S

Audi adds V10 Plus option to R8 Spyder

Aston Martin shows off a more production-ready Valkyrie

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Welcome to the Hooniverse News – On the Road Edition! I’m cranking this out from crappy hotel WiFi on the road as I drive a big truck cross country, so this is a weekly recap of the automotive industry without the fluff or bull will be shorter than usual. This week:

Porsche reveals more powerful and more exclusive 911 Turbo S

Subaru’s STI “tunes” BRZ and special WRX STI Type RA

AAA increasing insurance rates for Teslas

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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of some of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. There’s also just a little opinion of mine because I can. This week:

Lotus debuts the Elise Cup 250, the ultimate Elise

Ford creates limited edition Focus RS based on internet feedback

BMW adopts augmented reality for the 18th official Art Car project

Subaru all but confirms BRZ STI

Mercedes-AMG talks Project One specs

Honda Civic Type-R to allegedly start at $34K

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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of some of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. There’s also just a little opinion of mine because I can. This week:

BMW gives a preview of the upcoming 8 Series Coupe

Jaguar SVO announces new 592-HP Project 8 based on the XE

BMW Motorsport debuts M4 GT4 at Nürburgring 24

Geely takes majority stake in Lotus to “unleash” full potential

Patent drawings appear to show new Jeep Grand Wagoneer

Ford announces significant leadership changes

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Nothing gets your heart racing like coming out in the morning to find you’ve narrowly avoided disaster. This is the sight a friend and roommate of Hooniverse walked up to yesterday morning after some storms rolled though overnight. Frighteningly close to the tip of that downed tree is my roommate’s Trans Am and motorcycle – both of his daily drivers – which were thankfully unscathed. We don’t exactly know what caused it to fall in the first place, but we’re both just happy it wasn’t a few feet taller.

A new DLC pack for Assetto Corsa just dropped on Steam with a healthy dose of race car goodness. The “Ready to Race” car pack includes ten cars – only one of which is road legal – to fill in some of the gaps in their existing car lineup and finally bring in some fan favorites.

Prototypes, GT1, GT3, spec-racing cup cars, hyper cars, and even rally are represented in this pack to make it one of the most diverse content updates the game has received to date. A car pack made mostly of race cars for a game that does race cars extremely well sounds like a winning combination… and it is. Click past the jump for some quick (I promise) details and impressions.

Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of some of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. There’s also just a little opinion of mine because I can. This week:

Shelby American reveals a Super Snake for road courses and some expensive truck

The fire was allegedly started when crack smoking ignited a bunch of construction material stored underneath an elevated portion of I-85 and it was big enough for me to see the smoke all the way from my apartment in Roswell, more than 20 miles north of the city. The sheer heat caused a large section to collapse and it compromised even more. Initial Georgia DOT estimates claimed it would reopen around mid June.

42 days later and a month ahead of schedule, that section of I-85 reopened thanks to the non-stop efforts of the Georgia DOT (who I’ve never seen work faster than this), CW Matthews Contracting Company, and everyone else involved. As all of Atlanta breathes a sigh of relief and gets back to their normal, slightly less miserable commutes today, check out this incredible time lapse showing what it took to rebuild I-85. Hopefully it never has to happen again. The time lapse would’ve been more accurate if it featured a thrash metal backing track to better reflect Atlanta drivers’ moods, though. Also, don’t smoke crack.